Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Progress measure |
Short name: | PI 21a-Waiting times for emergency hospital care: Proportion seen on time, 2013 |
METEOR identifier: | 497186 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 |
Description: | Percentage of patients who are treated within national benchmarks for waiting times for each triage category in public hospital emergency departments. |
Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2013) Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 |
Outcome area: | Hospital and Related Care Health, Standard 07/07/2010 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
Data quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a-Waiting times for emergency department care: proportion seen on time, 2013 QS Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | See Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode - triage category, code N for description of each triage category. The numerator and denominator include records with a Type of visit of Emergency presentation, or Not reported for South Australia for data from 2009-10 and previous years. Records are excluded from both the numerator and denominator if the episode end status is either Did not wait to be attended by a health professional, or Dead on arrival, not treated in emergency department, or if the waiting time to service is invalid. Limited to public hospitals in Peer Group A and B. To ensure comparability over time, emergency department activity at the Mersey Community Hospital is reported with Peer Group B hospitals for National Healthcare Agreement purposes. Whilst it is currently not a Peer Group A or B hospital, in the baseline year (2007-08) Mersey was a campus of the Peer Group B North West Regional Hospital and its emergency department activity was included in the baseline. Analysis by state and territory is based on location of service. Analysis by remoteness and Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on usual residence of person. Presented as a percentage. |
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Computation: | 100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) Calculated overall and separately for each triage category. |
Numerator: | Number of presentations to public hospital emergency departments that were treated within benchmarks for each triage category:
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Denominator: | Total presentations to public hospital emergency departments |
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Disaggregation: | 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010–11 (revised for peer group) and 2011–12—Nationally, by Triage category, by SEIFA Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles. 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010–11 (revised for peer group) and 2011–12—State and territory, by Triage category, by:
Disaggregation by peer group is limited to Peer Groups A and B, as this is the scope of the collection, and coverage varies for other hospitals by state and territory. Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication. |
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Comments: | Most recent data available for 2013 Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Reform Council (CRC) report: 2011–12. The AIHW and states and territories will investigate the consistency of this indicator over time with regards to the movement of hospitals into and out of Peer Group A and B, with respect to the base year. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | NN[N] |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Accessibility |
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Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements: | National Healthcare Agreement |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Final, the measure meets the intention of the indicator. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 35-Waiting times for emergency department care, 2012 Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a-Waiting times for emergency hospital care: Proportion seen on time, 2014 Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 12-Waiting times for GPs, 2013 Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2013 Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 |